Stratocaster or S-type guitar New pickups Patience To begin, remove the strings from your Strat. Once the strings are off, remove each scratchplate screw and carefully flip the pickguard over onto a soft surface
V2's output goes out the blue wire to the output transformer (not shown) for a current boost, then from the output transformer via the green wire to the speaker jack (to the right of V2) and on to the speaker. I have added component numbers to the layout diagram above that match ...
These need to be aligned with the neck so that the strings are centered on it and over the pickups. Anatomy of an Electric Guitar Illustration by Alyse MarkelStep 1: Glue the book-matched top and back Determine which sides will face up and which edges will be glued by laying them flat ...
Think "guitar god," and a particular image of Jimi Hendrix springs to mind: Hendrix kneeling, shamanlike, before his Fender Stratocaster, his hands seeming to coax flames from the instrument. Captured by photographer Jim Marshall at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival, this image is burned into the...
The Fender Roller nut is a unique innovation. The nut has balls on the inside of each string notch. The balls guide the strings through the notch and allow the strings to roll on the balls. This design helps prevent the string from getting stuck in the string notch when you are tuning ...
To produce sound, an electric guitar senses the vibrations of the strings electronically and routes that electronic signal to an amplifier and speaker. The sensing occurs in a magnetic pickup mounted under the strings on the guitar's body. A simple magnetic pickup looks like this: This pickup...
Change Your Strings! Guitar Scale Length The scale length on a guitar is the distance between the edge of the nut, where the strings touch the nut, and the top of the saddle pieces, where the strings meet the saddles. To measure the scale length on your guitar, you can measure from th...
We use it to describe a “natural” tone, meaning a relatively flat frequency response. Speakers can have different frequency response depending on materials and construction design, like cone shape, magnet weight and coil size. Also, the aging process of these materials will change a speaker’s...
Don’t forget to look back at previous instalments in this series for advice on how to setup a Stratocaster, how to correctly restring an acoustic or even when to change your guitars strings. Are you on the hunt for more advice on how to get the best out of your beloved guitar?Click ...
Think "guitar god," and a particular image of Jimi Hendrix springs to mind: Hendrix kneeling, shamanlike, before his Fender Stratocaster, his hands seeming to coax flames from the instrument. Captured by photographer Jim Marshall at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival, this image is burned into the...